TOWN PLANNING

Press, Volume L, Issue 14901, 14 February 1914, Page 4

TOWN PLANNING

THE NEW ZEALAND VISIT

(raoM ova owy coJiaun'oxpß.-'x.) LONDON, January 2. The interesting announcement is made this week that the British Association for tho Advancement of Science, acting on tho suggestion of tho Garden Cities and Town Planning Association, has invited ZVfr W. 11. Davidgo to address them on town-planning while in Australia' next August. Mr Da-ridge will give two lectures in tho Economic Section, one at Melbourne, tho othor at Sydney.

In tho meantime tho Garden Cities and Town Planning Association is sending Mr Charles C. Reade, organiser of the Australasian Town Planning Tour, 1914, to Australia and New Zealand early in tho year in order to make the necessary arrangements for a series of lantern lectures in the principal centres. These lectures will be undertaken jointly by Mr Davidgo and Mr Roade, subsequent to tho meetings of tho British Association. The New Zealand lectures will take place in July.

Mr Davidgo lipids the distinction, almost unique in England, of being at the same time an architect, a chartered surveyor, and a qualified civil engineer. He hold.s all the diplomas in each profession that it is possiblo to get; he is a- Fellow of the Surveyors', Institute and a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects, and of the Institution of Civil Engineers. He has been known for somo years as ono of the most influential men in the campaign for the betterment of English towns, and is a member of the National Housing and Town , Planning Council, as well as a member of the Executive Council of the Garden Cities and Town Planning Association, which has had so large a share in the creation of Mr Ebenezer Howard's Garden City at Lotchworth and tho Hampstcad Garden Suburb. He has taken an exceptional interest in Australasian matters and a lead in interesting tho peoplo of the Old Country in the new Australian capital. Mr Reade is a New Zealander who has had an active part in stirring up interests in town-planning in the Dominion, both by public lectures and writings. He has studied the question for some years, both in England and abroad, and has been several times called upon to read j>aners at conferences in London and Ghent.